Easter Sunday 2021: Quotes, Bible Verses About Jesus’ Resurrection

Easter Sunday commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This important Christian holiday falls on the third day after Good Friday, which marks Jesus' crucifixion.

In the Christian calendar, Easter follows Lent, the 40-day observance during which many Christians repent, pray and fast. The week before Easter is called Holy Week, and it comprises Maundy Thursday, which commemorates Jesus’ last supper, and Good Friday.

Here are some quotes, courtesy Good Reads, and Bible verses from Southern Living, to share on this day.

• “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” — Pope John Paul II
• “Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.” ― N.T. Wright.”
• “And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?” ― Frederick Buechner
• "They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus." – Luke 24:2-3
• "With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all." – Acts 4:33
• "He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.'" – Luke 24:6-7
• "Jesus called out with a loud voice, 'Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.' When he had said this, he breathed his last. The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, 'Surely this was a righteous man.'" – Luke 23:46-47